I Happen To Like New York Lyrics

I happen to like New York, I happen to love this town
I like the city air, I like to drink of it
The more I see New York, the more I think of it
I like the sight and the sound and even the stink of it
I happen to like New York

I like to go to Battery Park and watch the liners booming in
I often ask myself why should it be that they come so far across the sea?
I suppose it's because they all agree with me
They happen to like New York

Last Sunday afternoon I took a trip to Hackensack
But after I gave Hackensack the once over
I took the next train back
I happen to like New York

And oh, the Easter Show at the Music Hall
A perfect delight
And oh, pastrami on rye at the Carnegie Deli
There's joy in each pie

And Madison Square for a Friday night fight
Or a walk along Broadway to guest at the lights
And at Carnegie Hall where the atmosphere's right
Life at the lights, at the night

I happen to like New York, I happen to love this burg
And when I have to give the world my last farewell
And the undertaker comes to ring my funeral bell
I don't wanna go to heaven, don't wanna go to hell
I happen to like New York, I happen to like New York
I happen to like New York

Liza Minnelli - Liza Minnelli at Carnegie Hall

Oct 1990

1. I Happen To Like New York
2. Here I'll Stay / Our Love Is Here To Stay
3. Old Friends
4. I Never Has Seen Snow
5. If You Hadn't, But You Did
6. I Don't Want To Know
7. Some People
8. How Deep Is The Ocean
9. I Can See Clearly Now / I Can See It
10. Married / You Better Sit Down, Kids
11. Ring Them Bells
12. The Sweetest Sounds
13. Toot Toot Tootsie
14. Buckle Down Winsocki
15. Alexander's Ragtime Band
16. Somewhere Out There
17. Lonely Feet
18. You Can Have Him / Time Heals Everything
19. Ebb & Kander Medley I
20. Ebb & Kander Medley II
21. Maybe This Time
22. Ebb & Kander Medley III
23. Ebb & Kander Medley IV
24. New York, New York / New York, New York (Bows)